Hanging Out with Jazzy: 24 Ways to Enjoy Yourself at the Airport

Sparkler villanous_mwaha co-wrote this post with her sister, little_noob. Enjoy! —SparkNotes editors

We all know that time spent at an airport, or on an actual plane for that matter, can be immensely, unbearably, insufferably boring. My sister and I are writing while waiting for a plane at an airport... and we are as bored as humanly possible. So, from villanous_mwaha and little_noob for the first time EVER(!), here is a list of entertaining ways of passing the time:

1. Write an article on ways to pass the time at an airport.
2. Play the explosives game. If you don’t know what this is, you have been missing out, my friend. Basically, you try to slip the names of explosives into conversation nearby airport officials. For example “Do you know where the toilets are?” “No, but Dyna might!”
3. Have a nerfgun fight!! FOR SPARTAAA!!!!!
4. Walk around narrating various people’s actions.
5. Pretend to be a spy.
6. Go Jackass! (i.e. pretend you're on a show about doing dangerous stunts in an airport. Can be achieved by wearing ridiculous outfits and pretending to start a boxing match in the departures lounge. Key word here: "PRETEND.")
7. Pretend to be scared of flying and contemplate, rather loudly, the different ways in which you could all die.
8. Try on every perfume sample under the sun.
9. Pretend you are a foreigner and talk to strangers in loud, basic English. Maybe add some words from a different language in there, too. Please note, if the person you're talking to actually speaks that language, get out of there fast!
10. Order diet water.
11. One for the guys: When they are doing the announcements, say “That’s what she said” after every sentence, loudly.
12. Come up with a dramatic persona and tell strangers about how Pierre left you and subsequently you and your family are moving to Ecuador so you can get over him.
14. Curl up in a ball on your seat and pretend to cry until boarding begins.
15. DO NOT read Twilight (unless it’s Dan’s version). Seriously, you are bored, not suicidal.
16. Make up facts about places you are passing.
17. Get out a towel and say to everyone you meet, "Don’t panic, I have my towel."
18. Start a Mexican wave in the departure lounge.
19. Play impossible eye spy, for example: time, air, electrons, God, and so on.
20. Get a printout of one of the Twilight blogs and start preaching the ways of the Bergsteinian.
21. Get out a Bible and just start preaching like a regular preacher.
22. Say “Wait, this isn’t the airport in Guatamala!?!” then turn to the person next to you and cry, “Where have you taken me, what have you done with my family!!”
23. Start a singalong.
24. Tell everyone you are nervous because when you go on planes you get gas.
25. Work out what we did with this article and contemplate why we did it….*mysterious smile*

What do you do when you're bored at the airport?

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